Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Colin Holgate
I have had to make a lot of ogg files lately, and I use Audio-Converter. It does have AU in its long list of formats: http://www.hewbo.com/free-audio-converter.html You can have it save the new file back into the folder the source file was located, which means I can do a Find on a set of

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/09/2012 13:39, Colin Holgate wrote: I have had to make a lot of ogg files lately, and I use Audio-Converter. It does have AU in its long list of formats: http://www.hewbo.com/free-audio-converter.html Thanks Colin, I'll take a look. Ben

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Warren Samples wrote: On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the url?: on mouseUp put someone at somewhere.com into tAddress put Hello!

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-14 Thread Devin Asay
Scott, I'm with Bob, Steven, Paul and others. I manage a lot of Macs, and I have often seen behavior like this on hard drives that are failing. The good news is that if you have a good backup, you can basically restore it to a new HD and be up and running. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Richard, I will give that a try. Thanks also to Warren for pointing out the potential problems. Probably a CGI script (as mentioned in a later email from Richard) would be the safest way to go but I'd be starting from ground zero on how to do that. Am I the only one that feels like I

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
No you are not the only one. But I have decided some time ago that the reason for this is that our original estimate of what it takes to accomplish a task is largely an illusion, due to our ability to imagine. What it actually took to accomplish any given task is what it is when we look back in

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! That question came up just last night at a programmer meetup. Everyone

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I wasn't blaming the tools by any means. I guess eventually, you build up a library of infrastructure tools (license checking, delivery mechanisms, bug reporting, etc) just as you do with code libraries so it becomes less of a headache. I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I invariably leave these things to the last minute in favour of concentrating on functionality and UI. The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
If this is speech, not music, then one can also use 8 bit wav files at low sample rates like 11k or 5k. The high frequencies will diminish and 8 bit is somewhat crunchy sounding, but if one is preparing the samples one can always create them brighter with eq. and shape for the application. These

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
Great audio conversion utility for mac - and it's free as in beer http://soundconverter.en.softonic.com/mac On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: If this is speech, not music, then one can also use 8 bit wav files at low sample rates like

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I like that! On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I invariably leave these things to the last minute in favour of concentrating on functionality and UI. The

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Stephen, Sounds like a great utility but every time I try to convert something (actually only tried .wav to .mp3, I get a message that I need to buy a licnse. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote:

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter Haworth pete@... writes: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! ...and that's what frameworks and object factories are for. --

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Peter Haworth pete at ... writes: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! ...and that's what frameworks and object

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Colin Holgate
To be fair, he said it was as free as beer. And that usually costs something. The Audio-Converter I use only cost $0.99. On Sep 14, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Sounds like a great utility but every time I try to convert something (actually only tried .wav to .mp3,

Re: Screen not updating with unlock screen

2012-09-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: members of the Dev Program can read Mark Waddingham's thoughtful comments on this here, noting that going forward the update behavior will be made more consistent across platforms:

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
That's true! I think the license was $15, which is cheap but not free as beer… unless you're at a sporting event in the USA. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: To be fair, he said it was as free as beer. And that

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Yes, but I'm thinking more of things like: - setting up a web site - making non-zip files downloadable - enabling some sort of demo/licensing scheme that's not subject to hacking within 5 minutes - setting up a method of reporting bugs - code signing Mac apps - making a .dmg file for Macs -

Scrolling beyond 32k pixel limit?

2012-09-14 Thread Charles E Buchwald
I'm working on an iPad app that is essentially a photo book. I've created a big scrolling group of images that are 1024 x 768, and a mobile controller to manage the scrolling. A couple of chapters are longer than 30+ pages, and were not scrolling as expected. It took me a while to realize I was

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/09/2012 12:20, Richmond wrote: Some of us have been agitating for Livecode to have ... inbuilt sound playback possibilities, as Quicktime Linux don't mix, and while one can playback sound on Linux from Livecode, one has to twiddle about with one's codebase per platform No argument

Re: Scrolling beyond 32k pixel limit?

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Charles, Why don't you organise the pages in cards and swipe those cards? There are visual effects that give the appearance of sliding pages from right to left or the reverse. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
well then buy the license! On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Hi Stephen, Sounds like a great utility but every time I try to convert something (actually only tried .wav to .mp3, I get a message that I need to buy a licnse. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
I must have paid long ago, because I wasn't challenged. What is it? 20 bucks? geesh On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: well then buy the license! On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Hi Stephen, Sounds

Re: Scrolling beyond 32k pixel limit?

2012-09-14 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi Mark, I've tried one page per card. The trouble is that it is never as nice as the mobile scroller. The mobile scroller responds very, very fluidly, as you've probably seen. As your finger slides, the content slides right along with it. I haven't been able to figure out a way to use LC

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Stephen Barncard-4 wrote Also you folks should know that I have been successful in obtaining audio data from a livecode stack and exporting it to a file and I'll post my findings soon. Great! We already have discussed this same topic some time ago... :-)

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
And actually I found a bug that I need to report - in the latest versions of Livecode (vs. 4.x series) the audio data is TWICE as large in ram -- doubled in size, and is not an addressing thing - the data repeats exactly once. This only happens in RAM. So I need to demonstrate that first - I did

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I've no problem doing that, just letting people know it's not free :-) I've been using a free convertor named Switch for a while now - it seems to do a pretty good job. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com

Saving in lageacy format

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Saving a stack file created with 5.5 as a legacy format 2.7 file seems to be broken. I've tried numerous times now using the IDE Save As… option and very time the resulting file cannot be opened by LC version earlier than 5.5 (file is not a stack error). I also get a strange message right after

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Stephen Barncard-4 wrote And actually I found a bug that I need to report - in the latest versions of Livecode (vs. 4.x series) the audio data is TWICE as large in ram -- doubled in size, and is not an addressing thing - the data repeats exactly once. This only happens in RAM. Exactly

Re: OT: Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego

2012-09-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
I though that the first reply should have been written by Richard Gaskin. :-D Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Supercomputer-built-from-Raspberry-Pis-and-Lego-tp4654980p4655040.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: OT: Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: I though that the first reply should have been written by Richard Gaskin. :-D I think I missed it. Hope it was good. While I think this is a super computer, I'm not sure I'd call it a supercomputer. But if it is, it furthers the dominance of Linux in the

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-14 Thread stephen barncard
It's not looking like double-byte Unicode to me. What shows up is the complete sound sample followed by a replica of itself consecutively. I've been looking at a hex dump of the contents of the clipboard. And this bulk does not get stored in the stack, I don't see this happening in earlier

Re: OT: Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, September 14, 2012, 6:09:05 PM, you wrote: While I think this is a super computer, I'm not sure I'd call it a supercomputer. From the comments... It is called a supercomputer because it is made of Lego, and clearly, this is a super way to make a computer. -- -Mark Wieder